{"id":8247,"date":"2026-08-24T21:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/strategy-again-skips-bitcoin-buy-and-establishes-usd-cash-dollar-reserve\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:02:12","slug":"strategy-again-skips-bitcoin-buy-and-establishes-usd-cash-dollar-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/strategy-again-skips-bitcoin-buy-and-establishes-usd-cash-dollar-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Again Skips Bitcoin Buy And Establishes USD Cash Dollar Reserve\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-establishes-new-usd-cash-reserve\">Strategy Again Skips Bitcoin Buy And Establishes USD Cash Dollar Reserve\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin treasury Strategy has established a new cash reserve that it will use to buy Bitcoin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/press\/strategy-increases-usd-reserve-to-5-10-billion-establishes-usd-cash-of-1-59-billion-and-repurchases-136-million-of-strc_08-24-2026\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to a Monday filing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nasdaq-listed company said it not only had increased its typical cash buffer to $5.1 billion but also created another pot of $1.59 billion which it may use to buy bitcoin and stock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strategy has not bought bitcoin since June, instead <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-skips-bitcoin-buy-again\">focusing on<\/a> stock buy-backs and creating a cushion \u2014 as well as occasionally selling bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p>Strategy increased USD Reserve to $5.10B, established additional USD Cash of $1.59B, and repurchased $136M of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%24STRC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$STRC<\/a>. As of 8\/23\/26: Strategy holds ~4% of Total BTC Supply and has ~0% Net Leverage. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WZ9GFtJBXh\">https:\/\/t.co\/WZ9GFtJBXh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/2091859021456146659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUSD Cash is a separately designated pool of U.S. dollar liquidity that the Company may retain for future deployment for general Bitcoin Treasury Company purposes, which may include acquiring bitcoin, paying declared cash dividends on Strategy\u2019s preferred stock and interest on its outstanding indebtedness, repurchasing Strategy\u2019s MSTR Stock or preferred stock, repaying, repurchasing or redeeming Strategy\u2019s outstanding convertible notes, increasing the USD Reserve, and other similar Bitcoin Treasury Company purposes,\u201d the filing stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strategy has said that its buyback plan \u2014 approved in July \u2014 is about balance-sheet strength rather than retreat. President and CEO Phong Le has said that Strategy intends to remain a long-term bitcoin buyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shares of Strategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) were trading higher Monday morning in New York. The company\u2019s stock rallied last week as the price of bitcoin rose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strategy said in the filing that it sold about $2 billion in common shares last week, and also repurchased $136.4 million of its Stretch preferred shares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corporate software company Strategy \u2014 formerly MicroStrategy \u2014 started buying bitcoin in 2020 as a way to protect shareholder returns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has since spent nearly $64 billion on the cryptocurrency largely using leverage and now holds 840,447 BTC worth $66.4 billion at today\u2019s prices, making it the largest corporate holder of the digital coin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investors can get exposure to Bitcoin via stock and dividend-paying instruments that Strategy has issued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin\u2019s price <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/bitcoin-price\">recently stood<\/a> at $79,031, up 25% over a seven-day period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-establishes-new-usd-cash-reserve\">Strategy Again Skips Bitcoin Buy And Establishes USD Cash Dollar Reserve\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/mathewdisalvo\">Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Again Skips Bitcoin Buy And Establishes USD Cash Dollar Reserve\u00a0 Bitcoin treasury Strategy has established a new cash reserve that it will use to buy Bitcoin, according to a Monday filing.\u00a0 The Nasdaq-listed company said it not only had increased its typical cash buffer to $5.1 billion but also created another pot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}